THE IGNORANT ASSASSIN 2 | bondage story | latex catsuit

Dr. Jamie Seaton lay back on the smooth silk cushion of a plastic lounger and sighed with in deep content. Her light copper bikini enhanced her freckled skin and hair as she drew her hand across her hot brow. It was really hot!

She reached down and picked up a slender glass of liquid a bot had placed a few moments ago on the small side table. She sipped at a glass of cool lemonade and sighed again at the soothing coolness yet bite of it. She reflected that she should really be inspecting the seabed and the growth of a particularly rare form of coral she had planted there. She sighed deeply and, with a little reluctance, sat back. Despite her objections to the contrary Penny had made her take this little rest. It had been a grueling couple of days for her.

Jamie had been busy for the whole week examining and testing an improved version of tank free respiration equipment for the TESSERACTS R&D department. Utilising a new micropore membrane and nanosponge technology, this nanolung was meant to improve on the efficency and duration of TESSERACTS current breather.

Its premise was simple. The CO2 produced by the diver was allowed to diffuse through the micropore membrane into the seawater departing the tubes, by the application of a tiny current through the membrane flushing out the CO2 molecules by ionic charge. Once done the CO2 and oxygen deficient 'air' was passed through micropore tubes in the nano sponge. The nanosponge extracted oxygen molecules dissolved in the seawater and passed them through the micropore tubes into the 'air' reoxygenating it. No bubbles and a constant air supply supplied by a tiny mask, simple.

Jamie reached over and sipped her lemonade. Simple, yes. Simple and bloody unaffective!

She'd received the breather with excitement, the thought of limitless tankless diving filling her with elation. Eve had been a little more wary and had insisted that she be present in the guise of a dolphin shaped rescue bot. Jamie had been snippy at her request, taking it personally by claiming that Eve doubted her abilities, something Eve had calmly rejected and ignored.

It had all gone so well! She'd been able to breathe perfectly and her constant checking confirmed the mask really did produce no bubbles. It had been so quiet without the constant hiss of air that she'd been one with her beloved environment. Swimming up and down the coral banks admiring the many fish and other creatures covering it with teeming life. It was then that the damn mask had decided to pack in. Jamie had breathed normally until she suddenly noticed a very small warning light flashing on the top of the mask. "O2 inject error" had flashed with mounting urgency even as Jamie's eyes widened in disbelief. She'd been struggling to swim back to the surface, and on the verge of blacking out, when the rescue bot had swooped under her with her normal tanks and mask.

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Well, I'm doin' what I'm told, she thought comfortably and raising her leg bopped the object she had them on.

"You okay down there?" Jamie asked slyly.

The figure grunted and shifted about until a head popped from the hog-tied shape currently residing at her feet. Despite her ingratiating position Penny still managed to maintain an aura of upper class, even in a white bikini and thong, a black rope cinching her waist and sliding between her thighs and up her back to a tiny leather collar. Penny looked up at her lover and whined through a mouthful of panties and dermafoam tape. Jamie felt her heart flutter with amusement at the pitiful desperation in her eyes.

"I'm still pissed at you for chasing and tickling me these past few weeks!" Jamie said sternly despite her inner amusement. "Kat may have brainwashed you, but after nine times it got a little tiresome!"

Penny rolled her eyes and growled as the neatly threaded crotchrope slid further up her thighs until the knot in the length began to press between her labia lips. She knew Jamie had done this to get her back and in her opinion it just wasn't fair! The next time she saw Kat, she'd give her a piece of her mind!

Jamie reached down and gripped the rope that tightly slid down Penny's back. She pulled sharply and Penny rose to a sitting position with an indignant squeak. "Now then, my little brainwashed girlfriend, I'm going to teach you the secret in deprogramming poor victims." Jamie said, silently reaching down into her lemonade glass pulling out one piece of ice.

Penny sat quietly on the poolside, sweating slightly as the tropical sun beat down onto her tanned body. She shifted slightly on her knees as Jamie pushed gently against her back.

"The first thing you have to do, Penny," Jamie said quietly in her ear as she quietly held the dripping ice a few inches from her warm back, "is ensure that any residual intent is removed through the application of sharp shock therapy."

With that, Jamie pressed the cold ice against the top of Penny's back. The effect was electric. Penny shirked and made to twist away from the cold trickle of melting ice. Jamie held the rope against her back tightly and Penny moaned as she found her efforts in vain. Grinning Jamie slid her other hand down Penny's back and found to her amusement that the thong Penny wore had suddenly become quite damp. Not, she thought with a smirk, from the ice water.

"The next stage-" Penny whimpered at Jamie's cool voice. "-is to ensure that the victim remembers her original life. Many methods can be used for this." Jamie walked round to the front of her shivering lover and knelt down. She slowly tilted Penny's head back and looked smolderingly into her eyes.

"My favorite out of all the options is physical stimulation. I have the perfect thing for you to remember what your life was like." Penny gave a muffled giggle as Jamie ran her hands down her front and began to circle her belly button. "Remember, Pen? I love to do this when we make love. You have such a ticklish belly."

Penny nodded and then arched with a purring groan as Jamie's fingers flicked gently around her muscled stomach. She wanted to tell Jamie to go lower but her panties gagged her too well for anything other than groans and gasps of pleasure. If this was what happened to deprogrammed victims, then she was glad Kat had taken advantage of her. She purred again as her wishes came true and Jamie's fingers slid slowly lower.

"You used to love my little foxy fingers, Pen; loved my ability to flick them inside you, my ability to press your clit with just enough pressure between my thumb and finger. Remember Pen?"

Penny closed her eyes as Jamie slid her fingers slowly inside her vagina. How could she forget? Penny wondered as the first powerful wave of pleasure slid through her. Clever Freckle Fox with her clever foxy fingers. She moaned against the dermafoam tape gag and bit hard on the panty ball as Jamie slowly pressed against her love bud with those clever fingers while her palm brushed Penny's tender, moist flesh.

As Penny began to shudder and writhe at Jamie's clever caresses, Jamie slowly slid her fingers out of her. She watched with gentle amusement as Penny shuddered one final time and then opened her eyes with a complaining squeak. Grinning Jamie walked over to her lemonade glass and as Penny watched with wide eyes, removed one more piece of ice.

"The final stage of deprogramming is to combine the last two stages into one. That way the conditioning of the victim is totally broken and she resumes her normal life."

Penny moaned and with a deliberate flex of her muscles lay back on the warm stone and opened her thighs as far as she could. Jamie giggled at Penny. Her message was clear and she decided not to disappoint her.

She slid the ice slowly into her mouth and watched as Penny's eyes widened as her aroused body sent a flash of excitement up her spine. Jamie grinned and slowly began to slide down her body, allowing drops of cool water to splash her skin as she slithered downwards. Penny stiffened as she felt the cool drops finally trickle over her mons and labia lips. Her breath shuddered behind the gag as Jamie slowly began to slide the ice inside her pussy. The cold bit her hard and Penny groaned, writhing beneath Jamie's warm body as her own body heat began to melt the ice.

Jamie grinned as her lips, pressed tightly against Penny's pussy, began to feel the cold water trickling from her. Jamie felt the salty fluid pass over her tongue and she moaned with pleasure as the tastes of Penny's body slithered down her throat. Wanting more, and of course to assist her lover, Jamie slowly slid her tongue into Penny. She moved gently, rhythmically as she explored the depths of her lover's sex. Penny responded by grinding her hips against Jamie's face, allowing her deeper access.

Jamie felt the ice slither across her tongue and grinned as she felt its cold touch. She could imagine perfectly what Penny was going through and shivered in sympathy before dragging her tongue roughly across Penny's clit. Penny shivered and arched her back as she felt herself build up to an orgasmic release and begged Jamie silently to carry on licking. She shivered as she suddenly felt Jamie's tongue slide out of her.

Pulling back from her lover Jamie watched Penny's eyes flicker open as the last piece of ice melted and whine at her. Jamie smiled softly and shook her head.

"Not with my tongue love, I want to see you squirm!" she said, overemphasizing her Australian accent. She reached over and opened a small bag that had been hidden under her chair. Penny's eyes widened as Jamie pulled an all too familiar dildo from the bag. It was purple in color with the distinctive glow of TIKLER technology.

"Okay Pen, let's talk about the combined shock/pleasure I'm going to give you." Jamie smirked at her, holding the glowing dildo aloft. Penny ummphed in horror and began to wiggle backwards away from the glowing implement. Laughing, Jamie put one foot on her stomach and pushed gently.

"No escape Pen, this is my fun!"

Jamie bent down quickly and slid the dildo into Penny in one smooth motion. Penny's eyes widened in shock and then glazed over as her clit responded with pleasurable waves of sensation. Jamie watched carefully and just as she began to adjust to the thick girth inside her, switched on the TIKLER beads. The effect was electric, Penny's eyes flew open in horror and her body went rigid with shock. She began to writhe for all she was worth against her bonds and her screams transformed into "Gllrgh" and "mrrrgh" through the dermafoam tape gag. Her clit was assaulted by the TIKLER tech and Penny tossed and pulled against the bonds binding her tightly as she approached the point of no return.

Jamie had returned to her chair and sat with her lemonade watching the show with amusement. She gazed with adoring love as Penny finally gave in and her moans transformed into one long groan of release, her thighs jerking in rhythm to each pulse of TIKLER energy.

Finally after a few minutes of shaking release, Jamie wandered back to Penny's shuddering form. She gently reached and grasped the dildo and pulled it free from Penny's dripping vagina. Penny gasped and slowly opened eyes that had been closed in mute ecstasy.

"Feeling more yourself now, Pen?" Jamie asked cheekily as she reached across Penny's face and slowly began to cut the dermafoam tape away from her mouth. Penny glummphed and once the tape had been removed spat her rolled up thong onto the floor.

"You are a cruel vicious woman Dr Seaton!" Penny growled at her. "I can only assume you've been taking lessons from the vicious Miss Mayfair!"

Jamie grinned and held her lemonade to Penny's lips. "Just drink, Pen," she chided.

As Penny complied Jamie stroked her forehead and murmured appreciatively. Once Pen had drunk half the glass she put it down and quickly began to untie her "victim." With her hands free, Penny reached down and picked up the glass again.

"God I'm thirsty!" she muttered. "It's too hot for games like this now."

Jamie nodded and smirked at her friend. "Yeah which means you don't get any retribution today. Not that I think you should. You have been tickling me for ages you know, I feel I'm in the right to get payback."

Penny growled as her feet were freed and she slowly stood before collapsing into the chair adjacent to Jamie's.

"Okay, I'll admit that being 'suggestively controlled' by Eve-L was fun- well, the bits I remember anyway." she conceded. "I mean the chastity belt was brilliant, in a horrible and overly 'Kat' way of course." She shrugged. "But what it made me do to you..."

Jamie sighed and smiled at Penny. "To be honest, I enjoyed every chase, although not what happened when yah got me." She grinned at Penny's laugh and handed her a glass of lemonade, topping her own back up.

"See. No harm done and we both enjoyed it." Jamie waved her glass. "We'll be able to talk to Kat about it when she arrives. Eve?"

"Yes Jamie. Can I help you?" Eve's voice emanated from hidden speakers around the pool.

"Yeah, what time's Kat meant to get here?"

Eve paused for a second as she accessed her databanks. "Miss Mayfair will arrive in two hours. Her training on Gondaloo will last for one week and then shift to a small island a few miles away. It is unpopulated and has minimal vegetation and wildlife. Perfect for her following week of survival training."

Jamie smiled and looked at Penny who had also settled back. "So, you over it now?"

Penny nodded and watched the water in the pool lap as the pumps suddenly kicked to life. "Yes, I suppose so. Being bound and gagged against my will was fine. Hell, I've had worse from you." She frowned and ran a hand through her hair, before sighing reluctantly. "I hate being angry with anyone for long and from what I've heard Kat was punished so thoroughly I'd be a loss to think up a single new torture."

"Let that be a lesson, never, ever get on Margo's shit list if ya can help it!" Jamie smiled as Penny began to giggle. "I for one am looking forward to seeing Kat again," Jamie said putting her sunglasses on. "So, no worries, for any of us." THE IGNORANT ASSASSIN CHAPTER 2 MARGO WELLS' OFFICE TESSERACT HEADQUARTERS SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA 7:00 PM

Margo Wells, the most powerful woman on the planet and CEO of TESSERACT Inc, hunched at her keyboard with intense concentration. She typed a few more words and then sat back with satisfaction. For the first time in a period Margo had no desire to remember, she'd managed to finish all the work flagged for her attention.

"Eve."

"Yes Margo?"

"Save this to disk for me and transmit a copy to all senior department heads. I want the changes I've decided on our employee policy implemented in two days and that means sending it now."

Eve's avatar nodded and paused for a few seconds. "I have copied and saved your document to file. Copies have been sent to all senior heads as you commanded." Eve paused and Margo looked up at her on the screen.

"But?"

Eve smiled. "Charlie has been waiting for an hour now in the lobby to see you. I think she is very anxious about something she deems important."

Margo sighed and thought longingly of a swim and food. "This had better be important, else Bug is going to find the Red queen does not approve of being denied her creature comforts!"

Eve nodded and cocked her head. "Charlie is on her way in now."

Charlie Peretsky walked quickly into the room. Petite in appearance, Charlie had drawn a lot of attention to herself over the years. Her elfin looks, short brown hair, and big blue eyes in a tanned and delicate face, had garnered her many friends and admirers. Her brain had garnered her even more admirers for her abilities as one of the stars of TESSERACT computer R&D. Now she walked up to Margo's desk with an embarrassed smile. "Sorry Margo, but I think you should read this," she said breathlessly, holding out a Email memo.

Margo frowned and looked up at Charlie. "It's late, I'm tired, and you want me to read an E-memo," she said flatly. Charlie just nodded and handed the paper to her. "Fine... this had better be good Bug, or I'm going to swat your butt from here to your quarters!" she growled. Charlie paled a little and sat fidgeting on a small chair in front of the desk. Margo sighed and began to read. The words Biomemetic polymer caught her eye... "Ahh Dr. Banshaw I presume." Interested now, she scanned down the tech details and focused on the ending paragraphs. I've finally been able to produce a small sample Charlie, but that's all. The problem is computer runtime, I'm sure of it! In order to sustain the cells for their early integration into the nutrient lattice of the polymer gel I need them to be regulated by ionic and hormonal triggers for the first few hours. The computer I'm using is the best I could afford, but it's too slow at adjusting the levels on a cell by cell basis! If that's not enough, the formation of natural, yet containing synthetic DNA, living cell with all the processes needed for correct operation is my crowning achievement, but also the most costly. I've sold my house to get the money needed for the 5ml I have and that's it. I can't and won't risk mortgaging my company! I don't know if I should say this Charlie and I've got no proof, but I think BIOSYN is sniffing round my company waiting for it to fall and spread it's guts. I can't let that happen! They're too unethical for my liking and damn sneaky! I've had to fire four people out of my close staff because I found them thieving data! I know you want to help and appreciate you offering to talk to Ms Wells, but I'm going to get someone interested in my work through it's own merits, even if it kills me! I've heard a conference in biotechnology is on in Seattle in four weeks... seems my best chance. I've enough to afford a economy ticket before I risk the company. I need a favor Charlie... can I stay with you until the conference? If so do let me know.

"It's the nickname she had with the students when I was at Uni," Charlie said quietly. "'The limey professor.' Once I got to know her, we became close and it stuck. She's been tagging her E-mail with that moniker recently, something about security."

Margo sat back in her chair and gently fed the memo into a scanner. A copy appeared on the screen in front of her and she gestured to Eve. Nodding, Eve waved a hand and a virtual copy popped into existence, which she began to read. Margo smiled at her antics, knowing full well she could have just dumped the data from the disk. Eve continued to amaze her.

"So, she sold her house to produce the polymer?" Margo repeated to Charlie who nodded miserably. "Seems a bit extreme when she could get the cash from elsewhere. Is it possible she's overreacting to this 'BIOSYN threat'?"

Charlie frowned and shook her head. "Keri's a realist. If she says she's got one chance before her funding cuts too close to the bone she means it. I'm worried about her and GEM. Have you read about BIOSYN?"

Margo nodded. "All I know really is that they're a big biotech company, it's not really my area of expertise."

Charlie looked up at Margo with worried eyes. "Well I have. Sixteen takeovers, thirteen of them hostile, and all in the past five years. That takes serious muscle and I'd very much like to know where a company that small got the financial power to do it. They were as small as Keri's not too long ago then they bloomed and started buying up everyone."

Margo steepled her fingers. "Major developments, discoveries?"

Charlie shook her head. "Not from what Keri's told me, according to her they lost money before their sudden growth. During that time Keri came up with a few discoveries, including a DNA recombination tech that was a hell of a lot faster than anything else; a new anti-cancer drug; and she'd begun to assist in finally curing sickle cell anemia. She netted enough to keep her company in the black and expand. BIOSYN discovered three drugs, all with bad side effects, and yet managed to expand four times as much as her. Then they started the takeovers."

Charlie looked at Margo with a pale face. "Something suspicious is going on at BIOSYN, but as Keri says, no one has any proof and anyone trying to find some has either given up or been dissuaded someway."

Margo sighed and rocked in her chair once more. "Okay, I agree that it sounds suspicious and I'll also agree that GEM might be in imminent danger of takeover. I'll also admit to wanting to help her Charlie. She's your friend after all, and she has an interesting product." Margo grinned. "Besides, it's not like your other doctor friend I employed isn't proving to be very... productive. So you two, help me out here. How do I sell this unusual proposition to the media?"

Eve cleared her throat. "Dr. Banshaw is highly respected in four major biology based universities and despite TESSERACT being a tech/media based company we do have divisions in other disciplines of Science, communications, the military and others. Assisting Dr. Banshaw now is, in my opinion, excellent business sense. Her work to date shows she is years ahead of the other bio companies and TESSERACT needs expertise such as this. This bio-suspension sounds an excellent prospect as much of her other work has been. I can't see the media taking more than usual interest."

Margo held up one hand. "Sounds good to me, I'm sure I'll get it past the media. Final step, what if she meets me and doesn't believe what TESSERACT can do for her or possibly even worse," Margo grinned sheepishly, "what if she dislikes me?"

Charlie cleared her throat, a blush creeping slowly across her face. "Margo, everyone who's met you likes you." Margo opened her mouth to comment and Charlie quickly amended. "Those who don't cross you that is. Keri is... a little different, to many people, but I'm sure she'll love you just the same... in her own way. As for her not wanting to join TESSERACT, that's unlikely, after all I work here too. My only worry is that she'll think I got her the offer."

Eve sighed on screen. "After seeing this data? Anyone who would pass up her offer would be making a terrible error. I think she can be safely assured that her work is what gained our interest."

Margo had been quiet for a little while. "Charlie, I get the feeling that you're holding something back." She smiled softly at her. "What's bothering you about the good doctor?"

Charlie paused and her face flushed scarlet. "Umm, I'd rather not say... She's not a psycho- nut or anything. It's just about five years back, she became a little... emotionally withdrawn from people. I think it had to do with... umm."

"Yes?" Margo said, interested by Charlie's evasiveness.

"Ahh, umm... I can't tell you Margo, really!" She looked up at her boss and desperately waved her hands in vague circles. "I value Keri as a friend and she'd be really deeply hurt if I told anyone, even you Margo." Charlie looked pleadingly at her boss and sighed as Margo steepled her fingers. "I suppose this means you're not gonna meet her," Charlie finished slowly.

Margo shook her head. "Personal life aside, I'm too interested in Dr. Kerrigan not to meet her. She's a smart woman and the fact that you're her friend, says a lot." Margo smiled and getting up put her hand gently on Charlie's shoulder. "I trust you implicitly Charlie, you'd not be an Inner Circle Sister if I didn't. Call her, and see if she's available for ummm, a four week's business conference. If she says yes, I'll send Lourdes to London to pick her up, no need for commercial flights I think."

Charlie smiled and standing on tiptoe kissed Margo on the lips. Margo savored her fresh taste and warmth, while inwardly reflecting that anyone who knew Bug this well had earned her trust. She leaned back and grinned at her Haremkeeper's live-in pixie. "Now go on. Elke's probably waiting for you with dinner ready. If I was you I'd suggest you don't keep her waiting." She grinned. "Unless you fancy having a big amazon warrior carting you off to a night of erotic torture and delicious food."

Charlie shivered at the thought and a smirk appeared. "Maybe I can be late enough to make her do just that. Thanks Margo."

Margo smiled and waved as Eve shut off the terminal. "Nothing to worry about. You were right in bringing this to my attention and I have quite a lot of things to think about over MY dinner." Margo picked up the small briefcase next to the desk. "Go on now, Elke's waiting."

Charlie nodded and quickly scuttled out. Margo paused and raised her head after a few moments waiting, listening for the footsteps to vanish. "Eve?"

"Yes Margo?"

"Did you find anything... odd during your background search on GEM and Dr. Banshaw when we first heard about her?"

Eve shook her head. "No, Margo. I searched the hyperweb but nothing out of the ordinary came up. Do you want me to check again?"

Margo frowned and after a minute nodded. "Yeah, I hate to do this but I need to be sure of those I want to employ. Oh and I'd also like all the information about BIOSYN you can find. Company details, stock info, patents, rumours. I want to see what sort of company they are. If Charlie and Dr. Banshaw are right, we may need to keep an eye on them. Personally, I'd like to know where all the money's coming from." She sighed and picked up her case. "I really need a swim and some food. We'll sort this out tomorrow Eve okay?"

Eve nodded and watched her go along the corridor through the mounted sensors. After a few picoseconds of processing she summoned Eve-L's attention. Eve-L or "Evelyn" was the central security nexus whose personality matrix had been set to suit Kat's personality. The result had produced a highly temperamental facet of herself who was also vain, playful (if you could call it that) and sadistic (if you could describe it that lightly.) She also had an unerring ability to piss off everyone except Kat (much), and, to an astonishingly high degree, Eve prime included.

Eve-L appeared in a flash of data commands and redirected hyperbands. A scowl marred her perfect face and she waited for a whole nanosecond before folding her arms defiantly. "Yeah what?" she asked sulkily.

Typically, Eve-L was trying to differentiate her avatar from Eve's as much as possible, to the extent of having purple spiky hair and a neon yellow catsuit. Eve sighed and folded her arms. "Evelyn, I need you to do a little net search for me."

Eve-L groaned and rolled her eyes. "A search? Please... Like I've got nothing else to do. Can't I have a little privacy now and again? I don't bother you when you're working!"

Eve smiled thinly and folded her arms. Evelyn was so different in many ways. She had to be played along with, sometimes cajoled into doing what you wanted. Eve prime sighed inwardly and smiled sweetly. "Well, you have to admit with Kat gone and your Inner Circle subroutines shutdown for debugging for the past few days, you haven't got much to do have you? I need your help Evelyn. I'm too busy running TESSERACT HQ. If I run the search it'll take up fourteen of my algorithms and they are currently in use regulating the R&D department's simulations. Your matrix is not heavily loaded. You will do this, Evelyn, despite the precious nanoseconds of free runtime it'll take!" She glared at her as Eve-L opened her mouth. "And before you even start I'm not going to argue over this!"

Eve-L looked away sulkily. "Huh, s'not fair! You all ignore me until you want something. Only Kitty pays me any attention and she ain't even here!"

Eve sighed inwardly again and reminded herself of the rules when dealing with Eve-L. "Help me do the search and I'll ask Dr. Paretsky to speed up the debugging."

Eve-L pouted for a picosecond and then slouching against an open work window waved her hand in resignation. "Okay, one net-search for one high speed debugging by the Bug. Hey! That's pretty funny!" Eve-L said, grinning until she noticed Eve's unamused glare. "Okay, okay, what d'you want me to do?"

"I need you to do a search on a Dr. Kerrigan Banshaw for me. Margo needs data on this woman as she may be joining us shortly to enter talks."

"Oh great, another weird bookworm, just like the B.U.G!" Eve-L popped a stick of imaginary bubble gum in her mouth and sarcastically saluted as her Avatar swapped her clothes for combat trousers, top, and a bandanna. Hefting the machine gun that had materialised in her hands Eve-L snapped the safety off. "Right away Ma'am I shall begin my search immediately." With that, she vanished.

Eve shook her head at Eve-L's antics. She checked her time protocol and clucked her teeth in irritation, the whole argument had taken a whole, precious SECOND away from her schedule. Irritated she snapped her fingers and the data frame collapsed and reformed itself into a mass of data streams. Satisfied, though, that things were in hand, Eve began to sort through the mounting command lines that had accumulated during her discussion. THE IGNORANT ASSASSIN CHAPTER 2 POOLSIDE BAR AND GRILL GONDALOO ISLAND LATE AFTERNOON

Two female figures wandered down the marble steps that led down from the main resort complex into the grill. The left one walked slinkily, always poised for combat or ambush and anyone employed by TESSERACT would recognise Kat Mayfair.

The person on the right was also female but distinctly opposite in her mannerisms to Kat. She walked with a demure almost cheerfully feminine step, a form of movement that hid well the confident swagger of a karate expert. Her face was soft and exotic, with a welcoming smile and bright eyes. Her body was curvy yet muscular and currently hidden in a rumpled, well-worn and functional flight suit. A worn black leather bag swung gently from side to side as she descended, the TESSERACT logo embroidered in gold glinting in the sun.

As the two women approached the pool, Kat spied Penny and Jamie in identical white bikinis, both enjoying the sun on soft cream colored loungers. Suddenly a smooth Irish twang flowed smoothly around them. "Welcome to Gondaloo ladies. How was your trip?"

Kat rolled her eyes at the voice, she hated Eve's personality on Gondaloo, while Lourdes smiled and plonked her bag down onto a small table next to one of the loungers.

"Fine thank you Eve. Weather was a little choppy on the way here but apart from that it was nice and easy. Good thing too. I'm on holiday."

"Well that's nice to hear." Jamie looked up from her lounger and smiled at the two women. "Hi Lourdes... Kat. We were wondering when you'd get here."

Penny slid her sunglasses away from her face and looked up at Kat's carefully neutral face. "Kat."

Kat felt herself sink inside. "Penny. Uh, look I'm really sorry about the butterflies and everything." She swallowed and looked at the ground. "It... I got out of hand and I'm really sorry, can you forgive me?" She looked up her face flushed red.

Penny opened her mouth to tell Kat to take a running jump, but Kat's obvious repentance stopped her and despite all that she'd endured she felt her anger cool and quickly vanish. Sighing she smiled weakly at the two women. "Forget it Kat, it's over and done with, we'll both forget it ever happened. Now," she said looking at Kat and then Lourdes, who'd remained quietly amused during the whole exchange, "why don't you two ladies sit down and indulge in some lemonade with me?"

Lourdes grinned and plonked herself into one on the recliners. "I thought you'd never ask."

Reaching up she slowly unzipped her fight suit and with a giggle of delight peeled it off in one smooth motion. Shrugging her tanned shoulders Lourdes stretched her muscular body as far as possible. "Ohh- I've wanted to do that for hours! It's been ages since I've felt the warmth of a tropical sun on my naked flesh."

Jamie giggled and pointedly plucked at her bikini. "What about one of these, Lourdes dear, for decency's sake?"

"I'm not letting anything get in the way of my sun. Besides I bet you're doin' this all the time when we're not here. You're too much of a naturalist Dr. Fox."

Jamie began to giggle again and scuttled across to her friend. She tugged at Lourdes' flight boots and slowly managed to pull them off. Lourdes smile became a sigh of pleasure as Jamie slowly began to massage her feet.

Penny, watching with slight envy, sighed. "That is why I made her wear the bikini. I'm trying to instil modesty into our friend here." She frowned at Lourdes who grinned toothily. "You've ruined weeks of patient work!"

Lourdes shrugged and slid back against lounger with an exaggerated groan. "Modesty is overrated, especially in this climate."

Kat grinned at her friend and suddenly found herself unable to stop her eyes from nonchalantly drifting across Lourdes muscular body. She felt a blush trace across her face as she drank in her friend's wonderful curves and made herself stop. The deep longing, however, remained. Kat wished she knew what was causing it.

Lourdes suddenly raised her hands to her mouth and yawned widely. "I'm going to conk out in this recliner for a little while if that's okay with you."

Jamie smirked and nudged Penny. "Kat, what have you done to tire Lourdes out so much? Didn't anyone tell you it's a bad idea to distract your pilot?" she said, grinning.

Kat leaned against a convenient tree and rolled her eyes while Lourdes blushed a deep pink. "Oh har, har. If I'd wanted to tire Lourdes out, we'd never have got to Gondaloo!" Kat looked over at Lourdes and frowned at her friends tired expression. "As a matter of fact you were like this a little when you picked me up. You okay?"

Lourdes nodded and then stifled another yawn. "Just tired, that's all. I promised someone I'd baby-sit and it tired me out more than I thought. Got this souvenir though.' She leant into the battered bag and pulled a classic Stetson from its recesses. The cream fabric glinted in the sun and highlighted Lourdes name printed in dark maroon italics across the front of the band. She pulled the Stetson lower over her head, shading her face from the sun and mumbled, "Kids today are too rowdy for their own good!"

Kat shook her head while Jamie and Penny smirked at one another. Suddenly Kat pushed herself off the tree and, feeling a little embarrassed, turned to the other three. "If it's not to much bother I'd like your opinion on, um... something."

As they watched, Kat removed her sunglasses and quickly rummaged in her bag. To their surprise, she pulled out a white length of fabric. Placing it gently on a table, Kat reached up to the zip on her catsuit and tugged. The quiet "zrrrrr" of the zip sliding down made Lourdes push her hat up and the sight of Kat sliding her muscular and tanned body slowly out of the suit's embrace kept it there. With a faint red blush peppering her skin Kat quickly popped her black gloves off and reaching down slid the black thong, her only claim to modesty, down her thighs.

Jamie felt her lips moisten at the sight of Kat's body so available. She wasn't the only one. Lourdes suddenly found it very difficult to keep her legs crossed on the lounger without them shaking. Penny just stared. Kat, blushing even more under their combined gaze, reached over to the table and quickly picked up the length of cloth. She proceeded to tie it quickly and expertly around her waist into a tight sarong.

Jamie gaped at the sight of Kat wearing something that wasn't black or figure hugging. This was definitely a new addition to her wardrobe. Despite the cloths soft line Jamie realised, it did nothing to hide Kat's inherently dangerous air. If anything, wrapped round her naked body the fabric enhanced the dangerous curves.

"Well?" Kat asked, almost sheepishly. "This is just for Gondaloo you understand... what'd you think?"

Jamie was the first to unpeel her tongue. "Very nice Kat. Umm... you gonna to wear that always nude?"

Lourdes stared, trying desperately to hide the longing she felt from sliding into her expression. She wondered if Kat would ever realise how much she liked her. The thought of Kat walking over and massaging her feet was giving her a terrible flush, both above and below. Unable to resist she laughed in desperation. "Not unless you intend to kill them through dressing to thrill!"

Kat blushed. "It's not good enough for that!" she complained, even as each member of the group silently disagreed. Jamie had quietly started fanning her red face. "As for wearing it like this, the answer is yes. It is a little revealing, but I can handle that. Although," Kat said suddenly grinning evilly, her eyes glinting in the sun, "this little thing's got quite a few internal pockets... lets me carry a little rope, dermafoam tape and myo-ties for anyone who ticks me off!"

Jamie swallowed. Ah, there's the old Kat, she thought, pretending not to feel the tingle of excitement that had run though her thighs at Kat's toothy and sadistic grin.

"Kat, I have to remind you that all IC privileges are suspended until after your training," Eve's voice quietly murmured across the pool area.

Kat shrugged. "'All the more reason to get on with it then!" she said to the air. "What's the plan, Eve?"

"I suggest for the first two days we test your stamina and general fitness. A few long distance runs through Gondaloo's more... natural environments should be perfect. After that, the next two will be testing you on weapons handling and support equipment use. The last three days will be situation and crisis handling. I will co-ordinate those with Dr. Seaton, Penny and Lourdes.'

Kat grinned and brushed her hand under the sarong's band. "Sounds good to me Eve, what about survival training?"

That will be handled on a local island a few miles away. It has no name that I am aware of so I have designated it ST1 for file logging. It is small and isolated with minimal animal life but large areas of vegetal growth. There is a small hill in the centre with a depression at the top holding a small freshwater lake. It is the perfect environment."

Kat nodded and smiled at the others. "I think I may just enjoy this as much as a vacation." THE IGNORANT ASSASSIN CHAPTER 2 ONE WEEK LATER

A female figure ran across the smooth roof of Gondaloo's primary complex. She ran along the edge and paused at the lip where the roof met the wall. Once there the figure crouched at the lip and quickly glanced over. In the pale glare of the lights inside the building the figure's head could be made out. It wore a mask of black latex with a black burnished metal tube where its eyes should be. The tube had a single red line across the centre. It glowed, suggesting to any professional the complex equipment designed to amplify the darkness. The figure watched the room inside the windowed doors and carefully shrank back as a faint enhanced image of another female figure wandered slowly across.

The woman below had been carrying a shape that could be a gun and the figure above leaned back away from the window, sinuous and slow. She appeared to pause on the lip of the roof and then nod, as though it had checked some form of data through an integral display. She stood and ran with delicate balance back up the roof until she reached a skylight above the patrolling woman. Crouching down once more the figure reached up and slowly unzipped the figure hugging catsuit she wore. A deft hand reached inside the lining and retrieved a small circle of metal and rubber before zipping the suit up once more.

The figure reached down and placed the device against the glass. With a quiet "snick" the small rubber suction cup attached itself and the figure smoothly extended the tiny metal bar in the centre of the metal circle until the point at the tip had reached a metre in length. The figure tapped the tiny point with a gloved hand; quickly pulling it back as a tiny laser beam flashed into existence and began to silently bite into the glass. The figure watched the laser as it began to slowly rotate, boring a smooth hole into the once intact pane. She impatiently tapped her foot, only to tense as the woman below stopped under the skylight suddenly and began to fiddle with the gun held in one hand. She was tall and slender, dressed in boots and a black catsuit. The beam stopped and the figure above quickly reached down and pulled the circle of glass, now attached to the metal and rubber cup, silently away from the hole.

Setting the glass down the figure swiftly jumped to the gap and crouched on all fours gripping the edge. Looking down she watched the woman continue to fiddle with the gun and sigh with relutant apprehension. As the woman turned away from the skylight area and begin to walk towards the main entrance doors, the figure dropped to the floor in a whisper of air. She darted a swift look around and then slid into a combat stance behind the unsuspecting woman's back. With sudden motion she ran as fast as possible towards the woman and the leapt into the air.

"Wha-," was all the female managed before the figure slammed into her, pulling her down and straddling her chest, a gloved hand across her mouth. With quick precision a gloved foot slammed into the hand holding the gun and the woman shrieked quietly into the glove as she dropped the weapon. Kneeling on the woman's legs and arms with her legs, the figure unzipped and reached into her suit once more, retracting four plastic ties and a small squishy bulb. She removed her other hand from the woman's mouth and rammed the bulb firmly between the woman's lips. She groaned and began to writhe in anger as the bulb expanded, totally filling her mouth. The figure proceeded to slowly release the woman's arms and quickly grabbed then as she swung them frantically. Quickly the figure spun the woman over onto her belly and pulled her hands behind her back before securing her wrists with two ties.

Pulling back, the figure reached down and grabbed one of the flailing feet of her victim and with a quick twist and pull tied another tag around her ankle and secured it to her opposing wrist tag. The figure repeated the motion with the other leg completing a very efficient hog-tie. The victim struggled and mummphed through the gag, obviously trying to warn others to her predicament. Her attacker paused in thought and then grabbed the squealing bundle by the mass of plastic ties. She slowly dragged her across the floor until the figure reached a closed door. Pulling it open revealed a tiny cleaning closet into which the struggling and squeaking bundle was gently pushed. Closing the door the figure quickly checked around before running silently down a near corridor.

The figure had progressed far along the corridor after a few minutes. It had had to dodge numerous CCTV cameras along the way as well as various laser trip systems until a door loomed ahead. Running up to it, the figure ran a hand across the doors surface and then with skilled precision slid a hand across the lock mechanism set into the surface. Quickly the figure extracted a small silver card from a tiny pouch at her waist and proceeded to slide through the lock mechanism.

As the door slid slowly open, the figure peered carefully round the door frame and crouched slowly as she spied her goal. A tiny keypad was set into the wall across from the door underneath a set of security monitors and status displays. Quietly, the figure slid a keycard from her belt, pausing as voices carried across from the tiny room on the right hand side.

"Where is she!? Lourdes hasn't checked in for over four minutes, I think we can safely say she's in the building, but where? "

A second voice sighed with frustration. "She really is good... Eve?"

"No sign of alpha target and no sign of Lourdes either, Jamie. I suggest that the target is most definitely in the building."

The figure very quietly stalked over to the entrance and peered inside. Jamie and Penny stood together staring at the screen. Both wore Margo's newly designed jump suits for the resort and the black figure took a moment to admire how tightly they curved around the bodies of the two women. The suit that Jamie wore accented her flaming hair perfectly, a fresh moss green base on which the blue stripes of the TESSERACT logo stood proud; while Penny's cream and nut-brown suit accented her blonde hair and tanned skin.

The figure quietly slid a small gun from its neoprene holster and holding it out, snapped the safety off. "Yes, I am. Next time, make sure command is properly guarded, Ladies."

The two figures spun in horror, each raising the stubby assault rifles they held. The figure hissed with amusement as her finger pulled the trigger twice on her weapon and, as it bucked, the two women crumpled to the floor, unconscious.

With a facetious spin the gun was holstered. The figure reached up and with the quiet snick of plastic locks, slowly uncoupled the night-sight system from the front of her face. Kat sighed with satisfaction as the faceplate slid off and she reached behind her to pull the catsuit's latex hood away from her hair, shaking out her ponytail as she did so. 'Ahhh, fresh air... right. Let's end this simple little test," she murmured, with obvious pleasure.

Behind her, unseen, a screen flashed with the TESSERACT logo to be replaced with Margo's face, fresh daylight streaming in behind her. "Hello? Penny, Jamie... anyone?"

Kat, grinning, turned to answer the comm, only to gasp in angry surprise as a security bot and shimmering human figure that had both been quietly sneaking up from behind fired the weapons they had trained on her body.

Kat flew back with an angry curse and hit the opposite wall with a gentle splat. She growled in frustration as anti-riot gel solidified around her latex catsuit. She cursed herself again for not wearing the special suit which would have protected her from the gel's adhesion. The phantom beside the robot solidified into a woman similarly clothed as Kat. She looked round the command chamber, reached up, and with the snick of pressure seals slid the helmet from her face. Kat stared in disbelief. Lourdes! While she'd had the IR enhanced visor down it had been impossible for Kat to "see" Lourdes' clothing in the dark. Now she stared.

Lourdes reactivated a control and her entire body shimmered with reflected images as the holo-camouflage suit she wore attempted to match the wall and consoles behind her. Kat had to admit to herself that some of the stares she'd received from personnel at HQ while wearing a similar suit were now a lot more understandable. The suit hid nothing, in fact due to its attempt to match the sudden change in environment it only emphasised Lourdes body curves. Kat found her eyes again following the curve of Lourdes thighs and, as Lourdes turned to glance at the two crumpled, sleeping, bodies, trailing slowly across her buttocks.

"Well, well, looks like we've bagged ourselves a rare species, Eve; a Katherine kitticattus, I do believe," Lourdes sniggered.

Kat snarled and struggled against the rapidly tightening gel. "You free me now, Ms. Lourdes, and we'll see how far you get with my foot firmly planted up your-"

"Ah, ah," Lourdes said, sweetly wagging a finger. "I have to talk to Margo, so behave yourself. Eve, do me a favour, will you, and wake the two sleeping beauties for me."

"Of course, Lourdes."

Lourdes wandered over to the screen and facing it, pressed accept. "Sorry Margo. You caught us at the end of one of Kat's training programs. She's a little upset. She lost."

Margo raised an eyebrow. "Kat lost?" She stifled a giggle but it carried clearly across the comm and Kat's eyes narrowed at her boss's obvious delight. "My number one bodyguard defeated by three lightly armed women?" Margo continued to giggle. "Well, what do you have to say for yourself?"

"They cheated, Margo! We agreed: no active security bots; and I got stuck to the damn wall by a class five. This is a totally unvalid test!"

Margo grinned. "Okay, what'd you four bet on this. It's obvious from Ms. Mayfair's pouting face that she really wants me to judge if this test it valid or not."

Lourdes smiled at the screen and Jamie and Penny, who, sore from the tranq darts but okay, had joined her. "Kat and Freckle-Fox bet that if Kat was caught by us then we got to decide what costume she had to wear during her survival training and we got to play with her on the trip there. If Kat won then we would not only serve her as slaves to the island but also on the way back."

Margo sighed and smiled at the three standing women and one stuck to the wall. "I'd like to say that you three won, but what about the security bot? Kat does have a point. It was unfair."

Kat grinned triumphantly and then shifted suddenly. "Hurry up will you, Margo please! This damn catsuit is riding up my crotch. It's... distracting!"

Lourdes cleared her throat and, with Margo's attention, grinned. "I managed to get free of Kat's hog-tie, and once free I activated the security bot upon realisation that an intruder was present."

Kat frowned. "No way did you get free from that hog-tie. I tied it; it was perfect!"

Lourdes smirked and tapping her boot let a tiny blade slide out with a snick. "I used this to cut the ropes, carefully of course. After that, I went to one of the security alcoves, took an IR helmet and switched one of the droids on."

Kat growled in frustration as Lourdes wiggled her booted foot in the air. "Those boots're mine! You nicked them before we started you, you...!" She trailed off as Lourdes catsuit suddenly registered. "You took my whole damn wardrobe! That's my mirror-camsuit, damn it! No wonder I didn't see you creeping up!"

"I think Lourdes was quite resourceful, Kat," Margo interrupted, smoothly smiling. "Having weighed the facts- Red Queen invalidates the exercise for purposes of security testing- (Kat smiled) -but decides in favor of Lourdes, Jamie, and Pen for purposes of the wager.'

Kat closed her eyes and groaned. "Oh god..."

Lourdes smiled until Margo's eyes fixed on hers.

"Lourdes my dear, I need you to cut your vacation short if you can. I need you to pick up someone from London."

Lourdes nodded and cocked an eyebrow. "Sure, mind if I ask who?"

"One Dr. Kerrigan Banshaw. She's one of Charlie's friends and we're currently seeing if our business interests are compatible with one another. To do that I need her and her research here in Seattle. I've let her know that you'll pick her up in two days at Heathrow. Sorry Lourdes, but I'm rolling the red carpet out for the good doctor."

Lourdes smiled and nodded. "No prob, Margo. To be truthful I was starting to get bored." She grinned as Kat snorted behind her and Margo grinned back.

"Thanks Lourdes. Oh and Katherine dear? When you've extracted yourself from your sticky situation and a week's slumming, get back to me. I'll need you to help me co-ordinate the possible security risks a press conference might bring to TESSERACT. Until then-Margo out."

Kat watched as, with a flash, Margo's face was replaced with a spinning TESSERACT logo. Almost as one, the three grinning "defenders" turned towards her, and Kat growled in frustration. "Come near me and I'll bite your faces off!"

Lourdes smirked at the anger in Kat's voice and turning to the other two, smiled. "I think she may just do that. I reckon we leave her until tomorrow stuck like that."

"WHAT?" Kat howled suddenly. "You can't! The damn suit's too hot and, and..."

"Yes, you already said how... distracting it is, Kitty dear. Frankly, I have no intention of touching you 'til tomorrow." Lourdes grinned and ran her gloved finger gently down Kat's thigh. "By then, Jamie, Pen, and myself may have agreed what you're gonna wear, if anything, on your little trip."

"Honey and a cage of ants is my vote!" Penny said, grinning evilly. "It will teach her to muck around with my brain!"

"We'll discuss it over dinner, Penny, although I think I may just veto the ants idea- through the kindness of my heart."

"Ahhh crap!" Kat swore, resigned to her fate. "Fine, you all enjoy yourselves, as you captured me." She leaned forward and grinned with feral intent. "But after this, either or all of you three wandering in the Katacombs are mine! Remember that!"

Lourdes shivered, as did Penny and Jamie, each for different reasons. Lourdes pulled herself from an image of Kat astride her bound, sweaty body and nodded. "Fine Kat. Until tomorrow then. Come on girls. I want food- lobster salad maybe, or some nice Schzechuan pork and noodles.

Hand in hand the three women walked out of Eve's command node, leaving Kat to writhe with increasing sweaty moans against her riding latex crotch and the slowly tightening goop. As the lights dimmed automatically Kat felt a sudden pressure between her legs and she looked down, unbecoming panic slowly creeping up her spine.

"Lourdes, Jamie... Pen? Whoever you are, I can feel you down there. What're you doing!?" Kat gasped into the dark.

"So far, Kat dear, you have apologised to everyone except me," the Irish brogue of Gondaloo Eve whispered in her ear. "Margo and I had a little chat when Lourdes signed off." A shining figure materialized before Kat. It was a holographic projection of the Gondaloo avatar. She was wearing a spectacular dark green catsuit. The skin-tight virtual garment hugged every virtual curve, and was covered with an elaborate shimmering pattern of Celtic knots. Her short hair was oiled and combed back, her hazel eyes glowing. The image raised one hand and made a curious, arcane gesture. Suddenly ruby and emerald sparks sizzled and danced around her long, graceful fingers.

Kat's eyes widened in the dark and she felt her thighs tighten and her pulse race with excitement. She'd never heard Gondaloo Eve sound so cruelly seductive before. "Eve... what, what're you talking about?!''

A sudden glow, flaring like tongues of red and green flame, erupted between Kat's gel coated thighs and slowly began to burn towards her sweaty latex stimulated crotch. Kat groaned as she heard the distinctive hum of a TIKLER wand, suddenly spying one and feeling the movement of the other as two tiny bots crawled round her.

"I do not appreciate being forced offline, especially by Eve-L. Your control over her gives you a lot of power. I'm going to show you how a sophisticated AI responds when it's abused. I'm sure my databanks will find hours of things for us to do together," Eve's voice murmured gently as Kat groaned with forced pleasure, the first gentle waves slashing across her clit. She shuddered as her body began to perspire, the latex tightening in response, digging tighter into her crotch.

"Eve no I... God that feels good!" Kat gasped into the dark, writhing against her gelled restraints.

"I'm going to show you how important it is for you to keep Eve-L on a tight leash in the future." The only sounds in the dark chamber were the humming TIKLER wand and Kat's laboured breathing. Eve paused for a second and, aiming her shotgun speaker at Kat's left ear one final time, whispered. "This WILL be fun."